Emacs, nano, pico, vi, vim?

I have a few text documents as my GTD system. I was thinking of trying to use the terminal for this, but I quickly realized that there is more than one editor. So far I've found emacs, nano, pico, vi and vim and they all work on my Mac. Normally the GUI is really important and I pick one that is esthetically pleasant, but these programs all look the same.

So I want to quickly edit these text documents and add/remove small pieces of text. When I google this I just get a lot of flame wars. Does it matter which one of these to use? Does one require less key strokes, is simpler to use and work better in OS X?

I have a few text documents as my GTD system. I was thinking of trying to use the terminal for this, but I quickly realized that there is more than one editor. So far I've found emacs, nano, pico, vi and vim and they all work on my Mac. Normally the GUI is really important and I pick one that is esthetically pleasant, but these programs all look the same.

So I want to quickly edit these text documents and add/remove small pieces of text. When I google this I just get a lot of flame wars. Does it matter which one of these to use? Does one require less key strokes, is simpler to use and work better in OS X?

Thanks

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vi still works after all these years. Simple, but not too simple. vi is not the greatest editor, but, like a good friend, vi is always there.

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